Ten-pound poodle-dachshund mix Annie likely dived into a rock burrow in her yard in Ken Caryl Ranch to get a rodent.

What she got instead on that Father’s Day evening was a face full of rattlesnake strikes.

The snake hit her at least three times, once directly on the cornea, her owner Valan Cover said at a Tuesday news conference addressing dog-snake safety.

The dog went into anaphylactic shock — swelling, bruising, struggling to breathe.

The Covers drove 15 miles to Veterinary Referral Center of Colorado in Englewood.

Veterinarians there put the dog on a respirator, oxygen and began medications to counteract her reaction to the snake bite. The most difficult part for the family was the wait until the antivenom could be administered. Because Cover hadn’t seen the snake to identify it, and because the antivenom itself has to be defrosted, that wait took three hours. Annie spent two days in the clinic’s intensive care unit. After four days, the little dog was able to go home.

Luke Rump, a veterinarian at the clinic, said five cases so far this year have required antivenom.

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